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cnot2cz_decomposer

CNOT2CZDecomposer

Bases: Decomposer

Predefined decomposition of CNOT gate to CZ gate with Y rotations.

---•--- -----------------•---------------- | → | ---⊕--- --[Ry(-pi/2)]---[Z]---[Ry(pi/2)]--

Note

This decomposition preserves the global phase of the CNOT gate.

Source code in opensquirrel/passes/decomposer/cnot2cz_decomposer.py 
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class CNOT2CZDecomposer(Decomposer):
    """Predefined decomposition of CNOT gate to CZ gate with Y rotations.

    ---•---     -----------------•----------------
       |     →                   |
    ---⊕---     --[Ry(-pi/2)]---[Z]---[Ry(pi/2)]--

    Note:
        This decomposition preserves the global phase of the CNOT gate.
    """

    def decompose(self, gate: Gate) -> list[Gate]:
        if gate.name != "CNOT":
            return [gate]

        control_qubit, target_qubit = gate.qubit_operands
        return [
            Ry(target_qubit, -pi / 2),
            CZ(control_qubit, target_qubit),
            Ry(target_qubit, pi / 2),
        ]